Having a bad air day? Tell Utah Public Radio about it.

By
Jennifer Pemberton | Mar. 11, 2013 | 25 Submissions

We've heard from the doctors. We've heard from the activists. We've heard from the Governor. Now we want to hear from you! What are the health effects of Cache Valley's air pollution? How does it look, taste, and feel to live in Cache Valley during winter inversions? Tell us your experience with the valley's air pollution.

We plan to report on the effects of air pollution on public health and your experience will help shape our understanding and coverage. Here at Utah Public Radio we want to know exactly what it feels like to live in Cache Valley on Red Air days and we need your help to do that.

You spoke and UPR listened. Jennifer Pemberton will be the guest on Access Utah to present some of your questions and comments on how air pollution has affected your health, including an audio collage recorded at this weekend's Earth Day Downtown Street Festival at the "Bad Air" Story Booth.

UPR provides a quick update to listeners about the "Bad Air Day" community engagement project. Reporter Jennifer Pemberton reads some listener questions about air pollution and promises to find answers.

The EPA has designated April 29 - May 4 Air Quality Awareness Week. As part of UPR’s community engagement project, Jennifer Pemberton has been talking to Cache County residents about the experience of living with some of the nation’s worst air pollution. This week, she’s taking their questions and comments to local experts. In today’s report, she enlists Dr. Randy Martin to define Red Air by the numbers.

During Air Quality Awareness Week UPR's Jennifer Pemberton takes us on a summarized visit to the Cache Valley Air Quality Summit in Logan, Utah, to hear air pollution epidemiologist, Dr. C. Arden Pope tell the story of how we’ve cleaned up the air in the U.S. in the past 50 years and how much further we still have to go.

For Air Quality Awareness Week, Jennifer Pemberton has been asking local experts to help explain Cache Valley’s air pollution problem to residents. In this report, she tours a lab on the campus of Utah State University, where the effects of particulate pollution on human health are easy to see -- with the right equipment.